Get ready to pay tribute to the Great Wyrm on the go this year!
Fantasy Strike wasn’t the only indie fighter revealed to be heading to the Nintendo Switch platform today; MESSHOF has announced that their cartoony blood-drenched and gut-splattered fencing/worm-feeding simulator Nidhogg II will be be heading to Nintendo’s portable console.
With its fast-paced in-and-out gameplay and simple control scheme, Nidhogg II is a good fit for the Switch. Exactly when this indie will arrive on Switch has not yet been revealed, so stay tuned.
The Battle for the Belt is the next Dragon Ball FighterZ event to put on your calendar. This time, the competition takes place in New York City and will feature 16 of the best players from that region.
Competitors from the past Battle for the Belt tournaments will face each other on March 27th and 28th in a two-day tournament to determine who gets the Belt, and a cash prize. Just like the past fights leading up to this one, it will take place at Microsoft’s esports lounge, Mixer NYC Studio. Among the 16 attendees figure Lord Knight, PAG|Grover, Method|Flux, and more.
The event’s broadcast will begin on March 27th, 7:00 PM ET on the Mixer website. Check out the preview video below:
During last week’s March Arc Nama stream, the hosts played a few exhibition matches in the upcoming crossover tag team fighting game BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. However, this was a noticeably more updated build, as we were finally able to see the game’s victory screen implemented, as well as a Team Preset option that will likely be similar to Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Most notably however were the newly-implemented Team-specific pre-match intros, which will occur both from pairs of related characters — such as BlazBlue’s Jin Kisaragi and Noel Vermillion — but also between crossover pairings, such as Rachel Alucard and Under Night In-Birth’s Linne. Additionally, it appears that achieving victory with such a duo will also trigger a special victory conversation between the two, as opposed to the standard win quotes spoken by unrelated characters.
We also received a brief, yet revealing, gameplay snippet of the unlikely duo of BlazBlue’s Azrael and Team RWBY’s Blake Belladonna, dishing out some stylish combos as only they can.
Fear not my fellow Tyrants, for though Azrael does appear to lack his Drive (The Terror) certain specials they formerly enhanced, such as Valiant Charge, will now act as if a Weakpoint is permanently applied, allowing the Mad Dog to retain his signature corner carry combos at the expense of 1 Bar of the Skill Gauge to trigger the EX version of the move.
As for Blake, she slices up a helpless Yosuke Hanamura with her Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe: Gambol Shroud, before finishing him off with a Distortion Skill reminiscent of how she defeated Roman Torchwick.
You can see both videos — along with a full gameplay analysis from Koefficient and stat cards for the newly-revealed Aegis, Carmine and Jubei — below.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in Japan and Asia on Thursday, May 31st, with a North American release on the same platforms following on Tuesday, June 5th. A European release on PS4 and Switch, published by PQube Games, has been confirmed for this summer.
There hasn’t been much news for Sirlin Games’ in-development indie Fantasy Strike for a while — but today, it was announced that the title will be heading to the Nintendo Switch this summer, alongside releases for PlayStation 4 and PC.
According to David Sirlin:
Fantasy Strike is the perfect fighting game for Switch. The Switch is a take-anywhere console, so fighting games would be great on it if not for how notoriously difficult they are to control. Usually, playing a fighting game on a JoyCon would be tough, but Fantasy Strike is designed specifically for that. Detach the JoyCons, give one to a friend, and you can play a deep, strategic fighting game anywhere.
Fantasy Strike has been in Steam Early Access since September 2017; now we can expect the final version of the game to arrive on all three platforms soon. The exact release date for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and full PC version has not yet been revealed.
Bandai Namco has announced three more characters for My Hero Academia: One’s Justice. Tsuyu Asui, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Denki Kaminari will be playable in the upcoming arena fighter based on the My Hero Academia manga and anime franchise.
The three were announced in a recent issue of Jump magazine. The issue showed the three character as well as some in game screenshots of them.
Of the three, Tsuyu Asui, a.k.a. Froppy, may be the one most people may be familiar — being one of the most popular and memetic characters to come out of the series. For those not familiar with her, her powers basically have her able to do whatever a frog can — something reflected in the screenshots below.
The more conventional-looking Momo Yaoyorozu, a.k.a. Creati, has the power of creation. She’s able to create just about any non-living object out of her body. One quirk of this power is that it’s tied to her food intake. It’ll be interesting to see how this will be represented in game.
Another character with an interesting quirk to his powers, Denki Kaminari, a.k.a. Chargebolt, can produce electricity from his body, to a point. Once he goes over the limit however, he shorts out his brain and lower his intelligence for at least an hour. Again, this may be something fleshed out as a mechanic for him.
We’ll likely learn more about these characters in the near future. In the meantime, check out this scan of the issue from Shonen Gamez.
VentureBeat’s Jeff Grubb is reporting that Ubisoft will announce that Vivendi is out of its stock business once and for all with threats of a takeover finally ending. To do so, Ubisoft is buying back some of the $2.45M worth of Vivendi stock with the Guillemot Brothers SE picking up another pile. New investors are an odd pair with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan snapping up some stock along with China’s Tencent bringing home 5%.
See more of these classics in action, courtesy of Capcom Unity.
Early looks at the upcoming Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection — due to arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC sometime this May — from PlayStation Underground and Maximilian were promising in many ways, but raised concerns about potential issues with the gameplay speed, and a lack of non-arcade features. Thankfully, community hands-on experience with a more recent build brought to Final Round 2018 alleviated a lot of concern: not only were the gameplay speeds apparently more arcade-accurate, but many of the original arcade bugs were found to be intact, minus the game-crashing ones. Offline versus mode for Super Street Fighter II Turbo was also confirmed.
If you want to see more of these games prior to their impending release, Capcom Unity wants to show you! Head over to Twitch today (March 20) at 3:30 PM PT to see some more in-game footage direct from Capcom.
Tune in tomorrow (3/20) at 3:30pm PT to see Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection in action! #SF30th
The Nintendo Switch hardware lends itself well to a unique aspect of Street Fighter II arcade history.
Street Fighter fans looking to pick up Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection on the Nintendo Switch will get to experience their own special addition to the Switch version: a re-creation of Super Street Fighter II: The Tournament Battle, an arcade-exclusive version of Super Street Fighter II that utilized four arcade cabinets to provide an eight-player bracketed tournament setting. So, if you’ve got a Nintendo Switch and three friends that are also Street Fighter/Nintendo fans, you can play this variation on the game for yourselves!
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection arrives on Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC) on May 29, 2018.
Upgrade your Qanba Obsidian fightstick easily with this kit!
If you’d like to add a Brook Universal Fighting Board to your Qanba Obsidian arcade stick — with a minimum of installation fuss — this kit is for you. The EZ Mod kit for the Qanba Obsidian with the Brook Universal Fighting Board is now available to pre-order at Arcade Shock.
Like prior EZ Mod Kits for other arcade stick models (such as the Mad Catz TE2, TE2+, HORI VLX, and Razer Panthera) this kit allows you to install a Brook UFB without any soldering or costly custom modifications. The features of this kit include:
Universal system compatibility PS3/4, Xbox 360/One, Wii U/Switch, PC
Solderless modding (est. about 30 mins. or less), can be installed by a novice
Lowest latency on the market (based on PS4 testing)
Similar to the Geese release, Noctis’s compatibility patch for Tekken 7 arrived a day before his announced launch date. Since yesterday, Noctis’s release has gradually been rolled out to all platforms, and the Prince of Lucis is now ready for action.
But he doesn’t come alone, at least if you’re on the PC — the latest version 1.1.2 patch also adds Nvidia ShadowPlay compatibility. ShadowPlay highlights captures the following gameplay moments:
Rage Art round finishes
“Great” victories
Super Slow Motion activation
High damaging and high hit count combos (at least 50, 70 or 85 damage with more than 10 hits)
Online Matches, win or lose.
Online Matches with an opponent with higher than 5 win streaks
Ranked Match promotions
Outside of the new Warp-Strike Warrior, there’s currently no information on any gameplay changes regarding the original cast. Make sure to check your mains to see if you notice anything different!
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